Pre-K bill sponsor will try to revive pilot program

9:34 PM,
Feb. 24, 2014

Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson

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The Republican-controlled Senate defeated efforts by Democrats on Monday to revive a pre-kindergarten pilot program, but the bill's House Republican sponsor said he's going to take up the cause.

With the suggestion coming from a House Republican to the Senate GOP, perhaps the effort will be more favorably received, said Rep. Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, sponsor of House Bill 1004.

Democrats were hoping to get bipartisan support on the Senate floor Monday to reinsert the pilot program into a bill gutted by a Senate committee. The panel replaced the pilot plan with a commission to study ...